The NAACP:
What the NAACP/Tea
Party Battle is Really About. [Scroll down] Urban demographics were radically altered
by forced integration, and this remains true today. The 1964 Civil Rights Act brought federal
intervention into local restaurants and movie houses and even constrained peoples' ability to choose their
neighbors. The 1965 Voting Rights Act and subsequent extensions now make every city and town in
America vulnerable to Justice Department oversight if their election system slights minority representation.
Employment based affirmative action has exploded from a narrow presidential directive targeting federal government
contractors to a bureaucratic colossus. There is scarcely a person alive, from professors to blue collar
cops and firefighters whose life-chances have not been shaped by government race policy.
Radical
NAACP Leftists Propose Resolution Condemning Tea Party Racists. The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the radical leftist group that labels black conservatives "Uncle
Toms", proposed a resolution at their 101st Annual Convention this weekend condemning the "tea party
racists." This far left organization will vote on the resolution Tuesday [7/13/2010] at their
national meeting. A racist NAACP leader recently attacked black conservative Kenneth Gladney for
being "kissed on the forehead, by a European."
Michelle Obama Set To Appear At NAACP Convention.
First lady Michelle Obama will speak at the NAACP convention at Bartle Hall Monday as the keynote speaker of
the event.
Michelle
Obama Rouses NAACP Before Vote Condemning 'Racist' Elements of Tea Party. First Lady Michelle
Obama brought renewed energy to the NAACP today, delivering the keynote speech at the annual convention one
day before the nation's largest civil rights group is expected to condemn what it calls racist elements in
the Tea Party movement. The nation's largest and oldest civil rights organization will vote on the
resolution Tuesday [7/13/2010] during its annual convention in Kansas City, Mo.
Liberal
Ignorance, Hate, and Intolerance: Michelle Obama Addresses the NAALCP. Does Mrs. Obama
ever have anything positive to contribute to the national discourse? Like her husband, she's always
agitating, always rabble-rousing, always bringing the worst out of people. She may blame the other
side of the aisle for stoking hate, fear, division, and racism. But, perfectly illustrating the
psychological defense mechanism of Projection, it is she and her ideological ilk who do it, and they
do it as frequently and effortlessly as breathing.
The Racism of the NAACP:
The NAACP, once an important Civil Rights organization, has not only forgotten its mission, but has
degenerated into what it was formed to prevent, it has become a racist organization. If you go to the
group's website you can read all about the groups original goals. ... Notice it calls for eliminating
race-based discrimination against all persons and equal rights without discrimination for all individuals.
Yet too many incidents in recent history has shown the group has strayed far away from its goals.
Black Activists Condemn NAACP Resolution
Against Tea Party Movement. As the NAACP plans to use their group's prestige to bash the
tea party movement, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are urging delegates at the
NAACP's national convention not to turn the NAACP into a pawn for progressive political bosses.
NAACP
will vote today on whether you are a racist. I have not seen a single interview of any Tea
Partier — and certainly of any credible movement leader — who did not repudiate and
denounce racism when asked. I hope they all continue to repudiate it, but I don't really think that's
what the NAACP is trying to accomplish here.
NAACP Passes Tea Party Racism
Resolution. The NAACP has passed a resolution condemning racism in the Tea Party movement.
The resolution was approved in a vote by more than 2,000 delegates at the annual convention of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Kansas City.
Tea
Party Is Dealt The Race Card. The NAACP, in crafting a resolution condemning racism in the
Tea Party movement, seems to have forgotten those Black Panthers with clubs intimidating voters and wanting
to kill white people. The "angry mobs" that reshaped the 2010 political landscape are angry white
racist mobs, at least according to a resolution proposed by the NAACP at its annual convention this week in
Kansas City, Mo.
Black Tea Party
Spokesperson Rebukes NAACP Resolution Against Tea Parties. The NAACP Resolution proclaiming
the Tea Party Movement to be racist is motivated by hate and fear. Though well disguised in intellectual
rhetoric, underneath festers hate and fear. Along with their underlying resentment of whites and non
forgiveness of America's sins of the past, the NAACP has become zealots for the religion of Progressivism
which preaches victimhood-ism and entitlement. The NAACP are the true racists whose secret motto is
"Keep Hate & Victimhood-ism Alive."
NAACP
had no business condemning tea partiers. By the time its annual convention in Kansas City is
concluded, the NAACP will have held a series of votes, endorsed a slew of resolutions and discussed any
number of issues. But only one will be remembered: Its resolution condemning "racist elements"
among the tea partiers. It was inappropriate, narrow-minded and divisive, a move that will only
cement the aging organization's growing reputation as a repository of partisan hacks. It will do far
more harm than good in a political environment already simmering with contentiousness, suspicion and
race-related grievances.
NAACP Won't Release Text of
Tea Party Resolution Until October. The NAACP will not release the actual text of its resolution
condemning "racist elements" within the Tea Party movement until October, when the organization's board gives
it final approval, a spokesman for the group has told me.
Liberals
Crash Tea Party, But Stay Silent On Black Panther Hate Talk. Over the past year, members of the
liberal media, progressive politicians and the Hollywood elite have demonized the Tea Party movement partly
by claiming that that Tea Partiers are a fringe group driven by racial animosity. Now, faced with
unequivocally racist antics by members of the New Black Panther Party, the progressive establishment seems
devoid of passion to root out hatred.
NAACP
plays latest race card against tea party. [Scroll down] The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People played a big race card, accusing the libertarian-leaning tea party movement of
harboring racists. ... Now the NAACP, an organization with a historic role in civil rights, seems to be taking
[Jesse] Jackson's path to irrelevancy. At its national convention in Kansas City, Mo., this week, the
NAACP offered a resolution condemning what they call "racist elements" in the anti-big government tea party
movement.
How Can I
Prove I am Not a Racist? How do you prove you are not a racist? I, my husband, and
several members of my family have attended several Tea Party events and rallies, including a rally of over
100,000 in Washington, D.C. last September. According to the NAACP, and many members of the Democrat
party establishment, my family and I are either racists ourselves, or we are tacitly supporting and enabling
other racists in the Tea Party. So how do we defend our honor?
On being labeled as 'racist':
A clear pattern of behavior has emerged over the last 16 months. According to liberals, if you
disagree with their thinking, and if you disagree with the Obama administration, you are not only wrong,
you are a "racist." The latest strike by the left comes from the NAACP, which has resolved that the
tea party movement is inherently "racist." At its most simple, this is a direct attack on the First
Amendment rights of millions of Americans. The NAACP has long history of liberalism and racism.
If you are a conservative — including a conservative African-American — there is no
room for you at the NAACP.
Backpedaling at full speed:
Revs. Sharpton, Jackson
downplay tea party issue. The Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton sought Wednesday [7/14/2010]
to steer attention away from an NAACP resolution condemning racism within the tea party movement, saying
focus should remain on jobs and an upcoming march in Washington.
The
National Association for the Advancement of Coddled People. Before the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People decided to ride the anti-tea party wave back to political relevancy,
its most recent activist crusade involved a silly space-themed Hallmark graduation card. Yes, the
NAACP has been lost in space for quite some time now. And blaming whitey will no longer cut it.
The NAACP: Still
Stuck In The Past. Sometimes they make things way too easy. [Video]
The NAACP's Descent.
[Scroll down] In recent decades, the NAACP has transformed itself into just another liberal advocacy group,
absurdly dragging "racial justice" into nearly every public policy argument. In 1994, the NAACP filed
suit against the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, claiming that a proposed fare increase would
discriminate against minorities. That same year, an NAACP spokesman suggested that raising the retirement age
for Social Security could "exacerbate racial divisions" because blacks tend to have shorter life expectancies.
NAACP
has forgotten what a racist is. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP) on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution at its national convention in Kansas City
condemning the Tea Party movement as — guess what? — racist. This is false, outrageous and no
surprise. The NAACP is like a Talking G.I. Joe doll with a cord coiled into its back.
Pull it, and G.I. Joe says something manly and combative. Pull the NAACP's string.
"Racism!" squawks the shopworn voice. Pull it again. "Bigotry!" it squeals, as it has so
many times before.
NAACP Spits into
the Wind — with Obvious Results. At the July 2010 NAACP "One Nation One Dream"
Convention, the NAACP spit into the wind hoping to damage the growing Tea Party movement and avoid the
Democrats losing any of their power following the November elections. But spitting into the wind can
be risky, and in the NAACP's case, it resulted in revealing the organization's own racist dishonesty.
Breitbart
hits NAACP with promised video of racism. The NAACP is about to learn one of the most basic of all
lessons in life — those who live in glass houses should avoid provoking a stone-throwing war.
After the civil-rights organization threatened to issue a condemnation of Tea Party activism by equating it with
racism (a position from which they ultimately retreated), Andrew Breitbart announced that he would publish
at least one video of the NAACP itself cheering racism.
NAACP's
Image Issue. After passing a resolution condemning Tea Party racism, the NAACP must confront its
own tolerance of bigotry. The post-racial society we were promised seems to be drowning in a sea of
hypocrisy.
NAACP Ushers
in The Era of Nonsense. [NAACP president Ben] Jealous appears to have selective memory
when it comes to who founded the NAACP and fought for the rights of blacks. While most groups are
proud of their heritage, it seems the NAACP is intent on revising theirs, and in fact, I found no reference
to the NAACP being founded by Republicans on their website! The same Republicans, black and white,
are still fighting for the rights of blacks, yet Jealous portrays us as racists.
NAACP Confirms Election of a Black President Made No Difference.
[Scroll down] When it came to the likely consequences of the election of a black president, we
conservatives — including this one — were fooled. The election of a black as
president of the United States has evidently had no impact on the use of the lie about American
racism. Just as the American people's adoration of a black woman, Oprah Winfrey, and the appointment
of two blacks, one a woman — by a Republican president — as secretary of state had no
impact, so, too, the election of Barack Obama has had no impact. Virtually every liberal commentator
who has written or spoken on this issue has described political opposition to Mr. Obama — not
only that of the tea parties — as racist.
The
Slow, Painful Decline of the NAACP. For starters, the mere act of criticizing a black president
is not racist. Nor is it racist to raise the public consciousness to the very important issues of
spiraling debt, misguided bailouts, and a series of social policies that may bankrupt the country.
Our nation benefits from uninhibited discussion about these serious issues. Very simply, when
movements — Tea Party or otherwise — openly debate these issues, the truth rises
up. When the NAACP labels and dismisses the Tea Party as racists, it has a chilling effect on
this important debate.
Now back to the more important work at hand...
NAACP Wants
to Make Neverland a State Park. The NACCP, which captured national attention this week by
formally condemning the "racist elements" in the Tea Party, is now supporting a California state lawmaker's
proposal to turn the former home of the King of Pop into a state park.
Is NAACP blind to Farrakhan & Company?
The
Nation of Islam is built on racism and lies. Neither [Martin Luther] King nor any reputable
people doing serious work would have anything to do with the Nation of Islam. It was too racist and
too much of an intellectual embarrassment. Over the years, many things have changed. The Black
Power era is largely forgotten. The various "Afrocentric" cults and costumes are now little more than
subjects for political science classes. Black Power is now a silly blip of "history," and we know how
little Americans know or care about history, especially if it is not pleasant.
NAACP's Glass House. The
NAACP has tried to make itself relevant again by casting aspersions on the Tea Party movement. But if
we're looking for actual racism, as opposed to the fabricated kind, we need look no farther than the NAACP
itself. Big Government posted this video of U.S. Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod,
speaking an an NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia earlier this year. Her speech, which was greeted
with approval by the NAACP members, was explicitly racist. [An] Obama administration official described
how she was conflicted when a white farmer came to her for help. Not her help, mind you, but the taxpayers'
help — she administers a billion dollar budget.
Birthday Bash.
The NAACP turns 100 today — but if it ceased to exist tomorrow, would it have a significant effect on black
America?
The NAACP and
Abortion Politics. Why would a bill that criminalizes abortion motivated by race not have the
support of the NAACP? Or, even more perplexing, why would the NAACP endorse such a bill and then rescind
its endorsement? This is exactly what just happened in Georgia.
Is Black History Month
already history? Well, it depends. Abraham Lincoln ... was born 200 years ago on Feb. 12.
A hundred years later the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the nation's oldest and largest civil
rights organization, was born on Lincoln's birthday. A century later we have our first biracial president. What
a country. Which raises a question I've pondered increasingly in recent years about the NAACP and Black History Month.
If they weren't around, would anyone notice? A lot of people ask, now that Americans of all colors have put an
African-American in the White House, how much more "advancement" do we need?
NAACP 100th Anniversary: Exploiting Color Instead of Erasing It.
The historic achievements of the NAACP — all but forgotten by most Americans — derived from a
passionate dedication to colorblindness and individual freedom. From its founding in 1909 until the 1960s, the NAACP
fought for a "colorblind Constitution." Since then, it has become just another interest group pleading for favors.
NAACP head outlines plan, new
'human rights' focus. The NAACP's new leader intends to hold President Barack Obama accountable
for his promises about civil rights regardless of Obama's status as the first black occupant of the White
House. "The president being black gives us no advantage," [Emphasis added] NAACP President and
CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous said Tuesday [2/3/2009] in an interview with The Associated Press, adding that
Obama's background as a community organizer and civil rights lawyer may make him more receptive to the
NAACP's agenda.
The Editor says...
The statement highlighted above comes as a surprise to me. I thought the election of a black president
was one of the NAACP's major goals, and now their CEO says it doesn't matter that much. What more does
the NAACP want?
Black Activists Criticize Use of Taxpayer
Funds to Buy New NAACP Headquarters. Members of the black leadership network Project 21 are
critical of the District of Columbia City Council's vote to give the NAACP $3.5 million in taxpayer money
to relocate the NAACP's headquarters from Baltimore to the nation's capitol. The NAACP is not a
revenue-generating industry and does not pay the full range of DC taxes due to its nonprofit status,
Project 21 members say, and also point out that the economic revitalization cited by proponents may
actually hurt poor black Washingtonians.
Today's
NAACP is a symptom of black problems. The NAACP today is not the organization it once
was. … Today the NAACP has simply become a rote platform for left wing politics. For reasons
that I'll leave to others to explain, the organization has become more highly motivated to promote this
left wing agenda than addressing the many problems of its own community.
Coloring History. This is Black
History Month, perhaps an appropriate time to call attention to an aspect of black history that has been papered over and
all but forgotten in the official accounts and in what is taught in schools. How many people today, black or white,
know that the National Association for Colored People was founded by three white folks, two WASPS and a Jew, and that it
was led and funded until well into the last century by whites, many of them Jews? It is understandable that after a
hundred years some degree of historical Alzheimers may appear in the memory of the organization — as it does on
its web-site — but perhaps it is time to remember the truth about how it all happened.
Racial
Hoaxes and the NAACP: The once proud and useful NAACP has outlived that usefulness and has in
some instances become an impediment to black progress. The Joint Center for Political and Economic
Studies, a black liberal-to-moderate Washington-based think-tank, reported that 88 percent of blacks
favored educational choice plans. A Gallup Poll found 72 percent of blacks support school
choice. The NAACP, acting as handmaidens for the teachers' unions, is solidly against school
vouchers.
It's a Black
Thing. The crowd of 10,000 at the NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner on Sunday night [4/27/2008] came
ready to Wright a wrong. The spirit of the 1960s' civil-rights movement hung above Detroit's Cobo Center
as local black leaders took to the dais to celebrate "the hottest brother in America" — Rev. Jeremiah
Wright — who had been lynched by the "monolithic electronic media," (Detroit pastor Martin Bolton) for
"speaking truth to power" (Rev. Wendell Anthony, NAACP chair). As Wright stepped to the podium, the
throng stood (albeit slowly after their $150-a-plate dinners) with him — a standing ovation in
anticipation of the misunderstood pastor….
Did
someone mention Jeremiah Wright?
Abuse of Power: Here's
what can happen when a politically powerful interest group manages to achieve an almost quasi-governmental
status and boldly acts as if it were an extension of the federal government itself. Although the NAACP
claims that its sacred task is to ferret out "unfairness" and bring about "social justice," very often this
organization simply acts as a tool for a consortium of well-heeled blacks, who have their eyes on someone
else's property.
NAACP head: Obama win won't solve racial
injustice in U.S. The chairman of the NAACP says racial disparity will remain an issue in America whether
or not Barack Obama is elected as the nation's first black president.
NAACP Wants Probe Of "Barbie
Bandits" Case. The head of the Georgia NAACP called for the state to investigate the sentences
given in the so-called "Barbie bandits" bank theft case, saying the two white defendants got less prison time
than two black men.
Feeding the Hand that Bites
Him. After a five-year boycott, [President] Bush spoke before the NAACP, the organization that
blamed him for the dragging death of James Byrd during an election year. The same group chaired by
Julian Bond. A few months ago, Bond said, "The Republican Party would have the American flag and the
swastika flying side by side" and likened President Bush's judicial selections to the Taliban. … The
NAACP has never withdrawn its ridiculous Byrd blood libel, nor has it apologized for any of its rhetorical
excesses (at least publicly). Nevertheless, Bush agreed to address the organization.
Historical
amnesia at the NAACP: Look around. Black candidates are serious contenders for governor
in three states this year, and two of them — Lynn Swann in Pennsylvania and Kenneth
Blackwell in Ohio — are Republicans. The third, Democrat Deval Patrick, is running in Massachusetts,
a quintessentially blue state that has managed to elect only one African-American to statewide office in
its entire history: former US Senator Edward Brooke — a Republican.
NAACP chairman compares GOP to
Nazis. Civil rights activist and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond delivered a blistering partisan
speech at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina last night [2/1/2006], equating the Republican
Party with the Nazi Party and characterizing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her predecessor,
Colin Powell, as "tokens."
Whitewashing a Black Leader: Isn't
it newsworthy when the leader of a venerable organization like the NAACP engages in such over-the-top,
crackpot rhetoric?
Bush
panders before the NAACP. [NAACP] Chairman [Julian] Bond, on July 8, 2001, said, "[Bush] has
selected nominees from the Taliban wing of American politics, appeased the wretched appetites of the extreme
right wing and chosen Cabinet officials whose devotion to the Confederacy is nearly canine in its
uncritical affection."
NAACP
Challenging IRS Probe Into Its Tax-Exempt Status. Under Internal Revenue Code, federally
tax-exempt organizations "are prohibited from directly or indirectly participating or intervening in any
political campaign on behalf of, or in opposition to, any candidate for public office."
NAACP Wants African-Americans To Stay Away From
Target. Even companies that make an effort to work with minority-owned businesses typically
spend barely 5 percent of their contracting dollars with them, the NAACP president said Monday as his
group released report cards on several industries. Blacks shouldn't spend money with companies
that don't hire them or advertise in their communities, NAACP President Bruce S. Gordon said.
[This is exactly the opposite of what the black "leaders" used to say about the liquor billboards in
black neighborhoods, even though the alcoholic beverage companies "advertise in their communities."]
The
NAACP needs to get a clue. The NAACP has just concluded its 96th annual
convention, and it makes me sad. I am sad because black America has real problems
and the NAACP and its leaders either don't care about them or are so out of touch with
reality that they are incapable of honestly seeing them. As result, the challenges
facing blacks are far greater than they might otherwise be.
Pattern
of abuse claims at NAACP kept quiet. The same day in May 1999 that Kweisi Mfume
abruptly announced that he would not be a candidate for mayor, an internal investigative memo
was sent to top officers of the NAACP describing allegations of Mfume's mistreatment of female
subordinates at the organization's Baltimore headquarters.
Mfume
gets the boot. Kweisi Mfume did not resign from the nation's oldest and most
prestigious civil rights organization. He was kicked out; following a long-simmering
feud with Julian Bond, NAACP chairman.
Golden
chance for NAACP. Unfortunately, after the victories of the 1960s, black
leadership, typified by the NAACP, refused to turn from the business of politics to the
business of living. The leaders transformed a creative struggle for liberation into
the destructive politics of anger and guilt. By turning their energies to building
a new welfare state and culture of litigation, these civil rights leaders of the 1960s
created as many problems as they solved.
NAACP
stoops still lower. As if it isn't enough that decades ago vast numbers
of black men opted to absent themselves from the lives of the sons they fathered, thereby
consigning these boys to undisciplined and rootless childhoods; and as if it isn't enough
that such boys feel compelled to seek out their own peculiar forms of power within their
fatherless worlds, we now have the Great Black Leader confirming the rule of boys over men.
Why Young Black Males Are
Not Graduating High School. A new report from the Schott Foundation reveals that only 47 percent
of black male students earn a high school diploma on time. Ironically, this report came out shortly
after Judge Vaughn Walker ruled regarding Proposition 8 in California. If the statements on which
Judge Walker based his ruling are "facts," how do we explain what is happening educationally to boys in the
black community where a large majority are growing up without fathers?
NAACP in
hot water over speech. The Internal Revenue Service is reviewing the tax-exempt status
of the nation's oldest civil rights organization, saying criticism of President Bush at the NAACP's
national convention in July may have violated rules against partisan activity.
Not Exactly the Gettysburg
Address. If Lincoln's Gettysburg address was one of the greatest speeches ever
made, this may be one of the worst. Kwesei Mfume, President of the NAACP, re-writes
biblical history, insults Catholic University and Catholics in general, and accuses Pope John
Paul II of being guilty of the crime of silence! He offers all of this in a heated style
with enough grammatical errors to make a grade school teacher cringe. It's bizarre,
funny and ultimately sad.
Black Conservative to Rebut
NAACP Leader's Remarks. At the NAACP's annual convention, currently underway in
Philadelphia, Kweisi Mfume said that conservative black organizations are formed and funded
by white Republicans. He said: "When the ultraconservative right-wing attacker
has run out of attack strategy, he goes and gets someone that looks like you and me to
continue the attacks… They can't deal with the leaders we choose for ourselves,
so they manufacture, promote and hire new ones."
Bush
Rightly Shuns NAACP. NAACP Chairman Julian Bond opened the organization's
95th annual convention with harsh words for the Republicans and the President. The
Republican Party appeals to "the dark underside of American culture, to that minority
of Americans who reject democracy and equality," snarled Bond, who later said he feared
President Bush was "going to repeal the 14th amendment" guaranteeing equal protection
under the law.
Editor's Note: What a vicious
canard! Does anyone really believe that President Bush — or any other
President — could single-handedly repeal a Constitutional amendment, or that he
would if he could? How poorly educated and how gullible would you have to be to believe a
statement like that?
NAACP
Chairman Compares Republicans to Terrorists. In remarks to hundreds of cheering liberal activists
Wednesday [6/2/2004], NAACP Chairman Julian Bond singled out Republicans as enemies of black Americans and
compared conservatives to the terrorist Taliban who once ruled Afghanistan.
Judicial scandal:
Documentary evidence is overwhelming. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund secretly requested that confirmation
of a federal appeals judge nominated by President Bush be delayed until the court ruled in favor of affirmative
action. The Senate, then under Democratic control, granted the delay.
NAACP
Legal Group's Integrity Called Into Question. Fifty years after the Supreme Court's landmark Brown
v. Board of Education ruling, the integrity of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund is being challenged
because of an alleged plot by its president to delay the confirmation of one of President Bush's judicial
nominees.
Alleged child rapist
nominated for Image Award: So, how does the NAACP choose to celebrate Black History Month?
Among other things, they've nominated alleged rapist, child pornographer and drug addict R. Kelly for their
annual image award.
"Mammy Condoleezza" Parody Prompts
Apology; NAACP Mum: A Florida radio station has apologized for letting one of its hosts air a
racist song parody about National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. But the apology comes no thanks to
the local chapter of NAACP, which was contacted about the racial outrage but decided not to complain on behalf
of the top black Bush official.
NAACP to open Cuban office: "Cuba
likes the idea of an NAACP chapter established there, and we are very open to it," said Hilary Shelton, director
of the NAACP's Washington office.
How the Left Trashes Black
Conservatives: Two days ago a nationally prominent speaker referred to Ward Connerly, a
politically active African American in California, as both a "fraud" and a "con man." Connerly is the
Board of Regents member who led the 1996 fight to pass Proposition 209, which ended affirmative action in
California's public sector. Who was the speaker who so disparaged Mr. Connerly? None other than
NAACP chairman Julian Bond, who made his remarks during an address to those attending the NAACP's national
convention in Houston.
NAACP
Called "Out of Touch" with Blacks: The NAACP is wasting too much time and energy on its boycott
of South Carolina, according to a group that insists the NAACP is "out of touch" with blacks.
NAACP Intimidation Tactics in South Carolina
Criticized: The NAACP has maintained a tourism boycott of South Carolina since 1999 to pressure
the state of South Carolina to remove the Confederate Battle Flag from the State House grounds. The flag
was removed from atop the State House dome in 2000, and the flag currently flies from a pole on the building's
grounds. Intimidation is intimidation," said Council Nedd, a member of Project 21's National
Advisory Council. "It doesn't matter if you are trying to keep black people from the polls on election
day or if you're trying to stop families from visiting relatives who happen to live in South Carolina."
African-American
Group Boycotts NAACP: Over the years, the NAACP has engineered boycotts against everything from
segregation to the state of South Carolina's use of the Confederate flag in the name of civil rights. Now
the NAACP itself is the target of a boycott — and by one of its own. The African-American
group Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND) has asked blacks nationwide to protest the NAACP's
left-leaning politics, which have thrust the group into the "socialist wing of the Democratic Party," says
Rev. Jesse Peterson, BOND's founder and president. "Pay the NAACP no money. Pay it no mind,"
Peterson wrote in announcing the boycott.
NAACP vs. Racist Hollywood:
According to the Screen Actors Guild, blacks, who comprise 12 percent of the population, are cast in
14.8 percent of all roles on television and in movies. Besides, don't the "good guys" —
mostly Leftist Democrats — run Hollywood?
Editor's Note:
(In this article, Larry Elder makes another interesting point: black households watch more TV than do
white households. Compared to some other groups, black children under-perform on standardized
tests. Studies also show black children do less homework than their white counterparts. Meanwhile,
the president of the NAACP seeks ways to make television more appealing to blacks.)
Bush Rightfully "Disses" the Collectivist
NAACP: "I was surprised, President Clinton came every year but one, and then he sent Al Gore
in his place," says an official with the NAACP upon learning that President George W. Bush declined
to speak at the organization's annual meeting. Hold the phone. How dare he? Just because the
NAACP spent nearly nine million dollars to "get out the black vote," an effort designed to
defeat Bush?
Black
conservatives say Mfume is gaining from boycott and TV deal: A black conservative group isn't
buying NAACP President Kweisi Mfume's claim that his organization's looming boycott of NBC and other
major networks and his possible talk show deal are not a conflict of interest.
At the NAACP, Obama
Removes His Mask of the Great Unifier. It is truly a sad day in America when the president of
the United States fans the flames of racial hatred. The man elected to be president of all the people,
in his speech at the NAACP basically said, though America is racist, sexist and homophobic, you can make it in
spite of those white [people]'s attempts to stop you. Wonderful. How inspiring. The NAACP
audience erupted in applause. Obama's condemnation was "red meat" to the liberal, protective of their
victim status, organization.
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"Diversity" - Another Name for Racial Quotas.
Naval Academy Changed Color Guard to Appear
More Diverse at World Series. Naval Academy leaders are under fire after altering the
composition of the military color guard at a World Series game last month so the group wouldn't be
made up only of white men. The Navy Times and other media reported that two white midshipmen
were removed from the performance in New York City and replaced with a Pakistani-American man and a
white woman so the group would appear more diverse.
The Elephant in the Room: Diversity, but at
what cost? Six U.S. Naval Academy students were to form the color guard at Game 2 of the World
Series, played Oct. 29 at Yankee Stadium. Everything was going fine until the academy brass discovered
something terribly amiss, and Capt. Matthew Klunder jumped into action. Klunder, the commandant of midshipmen,
ordered that two members of the color guard be replaced. Were the midshipmen cut because of incompetence?
Was there some disciplinary problem? No. They were benched because they are — white men.
Diversity and
the Myth of White Privilege. Forty years ago, as the United States experienced the civil
rights movement, the supposed monolith of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant dominance served as the whipping
post for almost every debate about power and status in America. After a full generation of such
debate, WASP elites have fallen by the wayside and a plethora of government-enforced diversity policies
have marginalized many white workers. The time has come to cease the false arguments and allow
every American the benefit of a fair chance at the future.
Ft. Hood Killer at Work in Annapolis.
[Scroll down slowly] Political correctness has led to officially-sanctioned discrimination against
non-minorities. Consider the case of the USNA color guard, the six midshipmen who carry the U.S.,
Navy, Marine Corps and Naval Academy flags during ceremonial events and home football games. This
year, the color guard was invited to perform at game 2 of the World Series in front of a national
television audience. However, two of the six midshipmen who had been longtime members of the color
guard were fired the day before the game and replaced with two newcomers. The offense, they were
told, was being white males.
Diversity for Diversity's
Sake. The "historic" Democratic presidential primaries of 2008 are kicking in already, and the
online announcements of Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have spun the media into a frothy sweet
Frappucino of giddiness. Between praise for Obama's "fluid poetry" and Hillary's "hot factor" from
her "ever-popular" husband, I've already had just enough of this pandering.
Betraying Dr. King.
Despite its conceptual flaws, the doctrine of structural racism has become the raison d'étre of an
ideological program that seeks nothing less than the replacement Dr. King's ideal of a color-blind society with
one obsessed with maintaining the appearance of racial equality. This program is called "diversity."
Diversity Is Our Destruction. After
30,000 interviews, [Robert] Putnam concludes and reports, against his own progressive convictions, that ethnic
and racial diversity can be devastating to communities and destructive of community values. The greater
the diversity the greater the distrust, says Putnam. In racially and ethnically mixed communities, not
only do people not trust strangers, they do not even trust their own kind.
The downside of diversity:
It has become increasingly popular to speak of racial and ethnic diversity as a civic strength. From
multicultural festivals to pronouncements from political leaders, the message is the same: our
differences make us stronger. But a massive new study, based on detailed interviews of
nearly 30,000 people across America, has concluded just the opposite.
The Death of Diversity:
The parsons of the press made diversity into a secular commandment; do a word-search of "diversity" in a broad
database of newspapers and it might come up 250 million times. … Now comes word that diversity as an
ideology may be dead, or not worth saving.
Like a fox, in
diversity. Let's start with "Celebrate diversity." What is it? Where did it come
from? Except in Sears ads, the Neiman Marcus catalogue, or trade papers of the breakfast cereal
industry, prior to 1978 you can't even find the word 'diversity' in the vast output of recorded verbiage that
the United States produces every year. Then, a guilt-pockmarked liberal non-sequitur is spun by
Justice Lewis Powell as an assertion in the Bakke case, putting racial 'diversity' in an ameliorative
link to 'university admissions.'
Supreme
Farce: Some of the learned justices are pondering whether there is a "compelling" government
interest in creating the educational and social benefits of racial "diversity." If so, then supposedly
it is OK to do to white kids today what the Supreme Court back in 1954 said could not be done to black
kids — namely, assign children to schools according to their race. What are those "compelling"
benefits of "diversity"? They are as invisible as the proverbial emperor's new clothes.
Diversity
adulation: There are some ideas so ludicrous and mischievous that only an academic would take
them seriously. One of them is diversity. … Our institutions of higher learning take diversity
seriously and make it a multimillion-dollar operation. Juilliard School has a director of diversity
and inclusion; Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a manager of diversity recruitment; Toledo University,
an associate dean for diversity; the universities of Harvard, Texas A&M, California at Berkeley, Virginia and
many others boast of officers, deans, vice-presidents and perhaps ministers of diversity.
Racism by
any other name: It's time to admit that "diversity" is code for racism. If it makes you
feel better, we can call it "nice" racism or "well-intentioned" racism or "racism that's good for you."
Except that's the rub: It's racism that may be good for you if "you" are a diversity guru, a rich white
liberal, a college administrator or one of sundry other types. But the question of whether diversity is
good for "them" is a different question altogether, and much more difficult to answer.
Diversity's
Oppressions. What is it that has made Iraq so hard to pacify, even after a swift and decisive
military victory? In one word: diversity. That word has become a sacred mantra, endlessly
repeated for years on end, without a speck of evidence being asked for or given to verify the wonderful
benefits it is assumed to produce.
White
Student Sues For Racial Discrimination. This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear two
race-related lawsuits filed by white parents in Seattle, Washington, and Jefferson County, Kentucky, who
claim their government school systems are engaged in discrimination by using race to make school
assignments, a practice supposedly outlawed by Brown v. Board of Education. (Although based on
political considerations and a flawed sociological study, rather than on legal arguments, Brown nevertheless
is the law of the land.)
Diversity
Ruling Could Be a Very Big Deal. The Constitution prohibits treating people differently based on
their race, but courts have allowed some public and private sector programs that do exactly that based on the
notion that "diversity" is a compelling national interest.
The Malkin
Media Diversity Test: The diversity they seek is, by definition, skin-deep. They
call themselves "journalists of color." Not journalists of substance. Or journalists of
integrity. Or journalists of independent thought.
Book review
The Diversity Myth: Multiculturalism
and Political Intolerance on Campus. In the name of "diversity," many leading academic and cultural
institutions are working to silence dissent and stifle intellectual life. This powerful book exposes the real
impact of "multiculturalism" on the institution most closely identified with the "politically correct" decline of
higher education?Stanford University. Authored by two Stanford graduates, this book is a compelling, if sometimes
depressing, insider's tour of a world of speech codes, "dumbed-down" admissions standards and curricula, campus witch
hunts, and anti-Western zealotry that masquerades as legitimate scholarly inquiry.
No Respect for
Diversity in News Coverage of Rice 9/11 Testimony. It's not unusual
for folks to wonder if there is a double standard in the news media. Usually, that
question has to do with ideology, a liberal or conservative bias perhaps. But the
headlines about Dr. Rice's testimony are not about ideology, but about diversity in
views. The press just can't seem to understand that a well-educated black woman
could hold the views Dr. Rice holds.
Diversity as the highest
ideal: When diversity is a higher ideal than accurate journalism, than better staff, than
credibility, a news organization is going to be burned.
The Racism of "Diversity": The notion of
"diversity" entails exactly the same premises as racism — that one's ideas are determined by one's
race and that the source of an individual's identity is his ethnic heritage.
"Diversity" for thee, not
me. People used to complain about "the idle rich." But the idle rich did not do the kind of
harm being done by today's busybody rich, who feed their own egos by bankrolling political crusades on the left
which hurt the very people that the left claims to care about — working people, minorities, and
children.
Celebrating
multiculturalism and diversity: For the multiculturist/diversity crowd,
culture, ideas, customs, arts and skills are a matter of racial membership where one has
no more control over his culture than his race. That's a racist idea, but it's politically
correct racism. It says that one's convictions, character and values are not determined
by personal judgment and choices but genetically determined. In other words, as
yesteryear's racists held: race determines identity.
The "Diversity" Machine Sputters: Things may
have gotten so bad, even the term "diversity" is considered verboten. For instance, General Motors has
devised a novel strategy for overcoming employee's disparagement of diversity: they have dropped the
term, while emphasizing the concept by using new code language. Instead of "diversity," they are now
trying out "inclusion." This is a little like renaming the ill-fated Corvair and expecting the
car-buying public to not know the difference.
A
Diverse Opinion About Diversity. For a couple of hundred years, foreigners have been flocking to
the shores of this most welcoming of nations. They would bring along their art and music along with
their cuisine, but they adapted their ways in order that their children and their children's children would
acclimate and be full-fledged Americans. There was a reason, after all, that America was nicknamed the
Great Melting Pot. But somewhere along the way, there was a sea change. Now we have that oddest
of strange creatures known as the dual citizen and we have millions of people living here who apparently have no
particular loyalty to this country and are being encouraged to retain their own language and their old ways.
Government should not
dictate diversity: Wendy McElroy despises businesses which hire or promote on the basis of
anything other than merit. That doesn't mean that she wants the government involved in fixing
problems of diversity.
Diversity
vs. "Diversity": Sometimes it seems as if "diversity" is going to
replace "the" as the most often used word in the English language. Yet the place
where this word has become a holy grail — academia — shows less tolerance for
genuine diversity of viewpoints than any other American institution.
The Vanishing Melting
Pot: Over the last several weeks, the air waves have been saturated with various buzz words in
the name of political correctness. We are hearing such terms as diversity and multiculturalism as if
they are magic words that would heal our emotional wounds, and unify us as Americans after the horrific acts
that were perpetrated on America September 11, 2001.
"Diversity" Goes on
Trial… and loses. They put on the ultimate show trial for "diversity," the latest in a
long string of psychobabble-style rationales for racial preferences. The case revealed that "diversity"
and "affirmative action" are euphemisms for racial profiling and the case demonstrated that supporters of
preferences crave racial balancing, not real diversity.
Spike Lee gets in Clint Eastwood's line
of fire. Clint Eastwood has advised rival film director Spike Lee to "shut his face" after the
African-American complained about the racial make-up of Eastwood's films. In an interview with the
Guardian published today, Eastwood rejected Lee's complaint that he had failed to include a single
African-American soldier in his films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, both
about the 1945 battle for the Japanese island.
Diversity: A Threat to National
Security. Jared Taylor, author and editor of American Renaissance newsletter, says the emphasis
on diversity in America has weakened our national security and threatens our survival. He says countries
or regions with diversity along tribal, religious or ethnic lines usually explode into violence. For
153 years of our existence as a nation, there wasn't a single mosque in America. The first one
was built in 1929. Today, there are about seven million Muslims in the U.S. and thousands of
mosques. Taylor says this hasn't strengthened us at all. He warns that Islam isn't just a
religious view but a way to organize society.
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Multiculturalism, "Tolerance" and "Diversity":
Among other things, multiculturalism seeks to obliterate the value of a free, industrialized
civilization by declaring that such a civilization is no better than primitive
tribalism.*
PC bureaucrats
making themselves look really stupid. Nothing makes me laugh harder than a dimwitted race
grievance industry bureaucrat fired up on diversity rhetoric attempting to outwit the general public by
making up phony evidence of inclusiveness, and failing miserably.
Celebrate
Diversity Unto Death. I pretty much said what I had to say about the Fort Hood massacre in the
first couple of weeks, because it was perfectly obvious within about 48 hours that 14 people
(including an unborn child) had died so that "diversity" might live.
The 'Diversity' Sham.
It has been 6½ years since the U.S. Supreme Court, in Grutter v. Bollinger, upheld the legality
of racial discrimination in university admissions for the purpose of realizing "the educational benefits that
flow from a diverse student body." Longstanding precedent requires the court to apply "strict scrutiny"
to any claim justifying discrimination on the basis of race. ... But there is reason to doubt whether
"diversity," as practiced by American higher education today, has any educational benefits at
all — never mind whether those benefits are sufficient to justify discrimination.
Diversity Has Jumped the Shark.
Never in recorded history has diversity been anything but a problem. Look at Ireland with its Protestant
and Catholic populations, Canada with its French and English populations, Israel with its Jewish and Palestinian
populations. Or consider the warring factions in India, Sri Lanka, China, Iraq, Czechoslovakia (until
it happily split up), the Balkans and Chechnya. Also look at the festering hotbeds of tribal warfare —
I mean the beautiful mosaics — in Third World hellholes like Afghanistan, Rwanda and South Central L.A.
The Vilification of
Rush. We as Americans have always been the great melting pot of society and the world.
We want everyone to become just like us. The Minority Thought Pattern now wants a nineteen-burner
stove with every pot separate and different, and that has given us multiculturalism today. Multiculturalism
in its present form has already proven unworkable.
General Casey's
Diverse Army. I am missing something here. After the attack and murder of 13 innocent
people by an apparent imbedded radical Jihadist in the US Army, General Casey said on Meet The Press, "Our
diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy
was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that's worse." ... I took the oath of office a few times
in my military career and for the life of me I don't ever remember the word "diversity" being in it.
The
cost of a diverse Naval Academy. The Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead announced in Annapolis
recently that "diversity is the number one priority" at the Naval Academy. The Naval Academy superintendent, Vice
Adm. Jeffrey Fowler, echoed him. Everyone understands that "diversity" here means nonwhite skins.
Victims Of Tolerance?
So why did they all tolerate his abusive behavior for so long? Was it because he was a foreign student?
Was it because he was a minority? Was it because multiculturalism has robbed us of our last sense, even
our instinct for survival? Or was it simply because the campus lifestyle, more than the real world,
tends to accommodate, even nurture, idiosyncratic behavior? Whatever it was, the kid-glove treatment the
university culture afforded him amounted to a mass enabling of Cho's psychotic behavior.
The multi-cultural
one way street: Demands for "tolerance" in the name of multiculturalism apply only to wealthy,
predominantly white countries. And within them, only to whites. A shocking situation in Denmark
illustrates the point.
Too
Much Tolerance. We are ever admonished to respect differences, to be tolerant of what we might
think of as bizarre behavior. We are told that among the worst of sins is to be judgmental about how
others behave. Multiculaturalism is what we are about. Diversity is our strength. All
cultures, all people, all lifestyles are to be treated equally. At Blacksburg on Monday, we learned
that there is such a thing as too much tolerance.
Multiculturalism
has a down side. Concerns about the potential downsides of state-sanctioned multiculturalism have
finally reached the long-deaf ears, and are now being given a voice by, Canada's elite chattering classes.
We Are All Cowards Now.
What's so disconcerting is that a man at the top of his profession, with a wife at the top of hers, in a country that has
rewarded his accomplishments and whose people have made epic strides toward the creation of an equitable society, lectures
us in a way that can only divide us. But that's the infernal paradox of multiculturalism. It preaches tolerance
but practices divisiveness. It pretends to be even-handed but imposes severe restrictions on speech. It censors
brilliant scholars and independent-minded students. And then the Attorney General criticizes those who don't want to
play that self-destructive game.
Bowling With Our Own: In
the 41 sites [Robert] Putnam studied in the U.S., he found that the more diverse the neighborhood, the less
residents trust neighbors. This proved true in communities large and small, from big cities like Los
Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Boston to tiny Yakima, Washington, rural South Dakota, and the mountains of
West Virginia.
Multiculturalism: The
New Racism. By embracing "diversity," multiculturalism claims to extinguish
racism. Far from being a cure for racism, multiculturalism is racism
in a new, self-righteous guise. The purpose of this ad hoc newsletter
is to describe the efforts of the Ayn Rand Institute to oppose
multiculturalism and to defend the superiority of Western Civilization.
The menace
of multiculturalism: It's not easy to dislodge a trendy fad, particularly among the public
intellectuals and the aspiring sophisticates of the chattering class, but "multiculturalism" may be getting
an intellectual re-examination.
Keep the Immigrants,
Deport the Multiculturalists. So, whatever happened to immigration as a presidential campaign
issue? In the early caucus and primary states — Iowa, New Hampshire, South
Carolina — the media assured us that immigration was foremost on the minds of voters.
You couldn't watch a Republican debate without the issue dominating a good chunk of the discussion.
Chirpiness that'll
be the death of us: "Multiculturalism" is a unicultural phenomenon. It exists only as a
Western fetish, and we don't believe in it, not really. Most people, given the choice, want to live in an
advanced Western society. That's why even impeccably PC lefties refer carelessly to other cultures as
"developing nations": the phrase assumes they're "developing" into something closer to ours, because
that's the direction of progress. Even hard-core multiculturalists only want to live in a Western society.
For one thing, that's the only place you can make a living as a multiculturalist.
Immigration taboos:
There are thousands of Americans who might still be alive if we had banned immigration from Saudi Arabia — and
perhaps that might be more important than the rhetoric of the intelligentsia. In that rhetoric, all
differences between peoples are magically transformed into mere "stereotypes" and "perceptions." This
blithely ignores hard data showing, for example, that people who come here from some countries are ten times
more likely to go on welfare as people from some other countries.
Multiculturalism's
War on Education: One text acclaims the inhabitants of West Africa in pre-Columbian times for
having prosperous economies and for establishing a university in Timbuktu; but it ignores their brutal trade in
slaves and the proliferation of far more consequential institutions of learning in Paris, Oxford and elsewhere
in Europe. Some books routinely lionize the architecture of the Aztecs, but purposely overlook or
underplay the fact that they practiced human sacrifices. A few textbooks seek to portray Islam as
peaceful in part by distorting the concept of "jihad" ("sacred war") to mean an internal struggle to surmount
temptation and evil. Islam's wars of religious conquest are played down.
Get whitey:
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus want you to treat black Americans with respect and racially sensitive
language. And if you don't, they will scream racial epithets at you.
The Fraud of Multiculturalism:
Without a doubt most people in this country would agree that the government schools are failing our children.
The government's pat answer to the problem is always a lack of funds, but I hope to convince you that the true
problem behind the failure of these schools is far more sinister than that. The real culprit is not a
lack of money but the evil programs being advanced under the umbrella of a term called Multiculturalism, better
known as diversity.
Multiculturalism cannot
survive. Future historians of the phenomenon known as "multiculturalism" that the West bone-headedly adopted
towards the end of the second millennium will note the precise time when it was dealt a mortal wound. It was at
8:46 on Tuesday morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when the first of the four commercial airliners hijacked by Islamist
terrorists — all of Arab origin — struck the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.
America's Founding Ideals: As America
descends into multiculturalism, public recognition of the superiority of America's heritage is considered
uncivil — and possibly even illegal.
The Meaning Of 'Is'…
Multiculturalism is simply moral equivalency on a national or cultural scale; it helps strip our society of the idea
of objective moral standards, a sense of right and wrong. Why would "liberals" want that? Because the
socialist society they seek requires there be no standards or values to compete with those ordained by the government;
after all, socialists maintain, those rules are for the good of all.
Once Upon a Rhyme: Once upon a time,
students had their heads crammed full with poetry by great old writers — the "Dead White Men" so
reviled by today's multiculturalists.
Coalition Resists "Tolerance"
Police: The group plans to place an ad in at least one major U.S. newspaper. "It will be
about the extent to which the left in this country has misused and misapplied the term "tolerance" to impose a
rigid, politically correct ideology on America," the group's national director explained.
Race and
Politics: Part IV. One of the most ominous developments of our time has been the
multicultural dogma that all cultures are equal. It is one of the many unsubstantiated assertions
that have become fashionable among self-congratulatory elites, with hard evidence being neither asked for
nor offered.
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"Profiling":
Racial
profiling: What is racial profiling, and is it racist? We can think of
profiling as using cheap-to-observe characteristics as indicators or proxies for
more-costly-to-observe characteristics.
Discrimination: The
Law vs. Morality. Racial issues can be contentious, but they can be made
even more so when the terms used in discussions of racial phenomena are ambiguous. Because
words can and do have multiple meanings in everyday usage, one goal of this paper is to
suggest operational definitions of terms such as "discrimination," "preferences," and
"prejudice," so that one phenomenon is not confused with another.
If the profile
fits… When there is a 100 percent chance, it ceases to be a profile. It's called
a "description of the suspect." This is not a psychological judgment about an ethnic group — it is an all-points
bulletin: Warning! The next terrorist to board a commercial flight will be an Arab or
Muslim male.
Profiling petulance:
It is clear, whether we like it or not, or want to say it or not, that there is a strong correlation between
committing terrorist acts and being a Muslim, and being black and high rates of crime. That means if
one is trying to deter terrorism and in some cases capture a criminal, he would expend greater investigatory
resources on Muslims and blacks.
Airport-security firm at mercy of
Muslims: EEOC case forced company to rehire Arabs, instate Islamic-sensitivity
training program.
Profiling Needed:
Most security resources should be spent scrutinizing Caucasian males, particularly those with a Middle Eastern appearance.
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Reverse Discrimination:
Diversity and
the Myth of White Privilege. Forty years ago, as the United States experienced the civil
rights movement, the supposed monolith of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant dominance served as the whipping
post for almost every debate about power and status in America. After a full generation of such
debate, WASP elites have fallen by the wayside and a plethora of government-enforced diversity policies
have marginalized many white workers. The time has come to cease the false arguments and allow
every American the benefit of a fair chance at the future.
Reverse Discrimination at
Boeing: Boeing's employment policies specifically favor minorities in hiring
and promotions. Boeing suppliers and subcontractors must be the "correct" race, gender
and ethnicity in order to do business with the aerospace giant.
City
Hall hears accusations of DART racial hiring. Allegations of hiring discrimination at the DART
transit agency have now spilled over to Dallas City Hall. Community leaders, frustrated over the lack of
action by DART officials are now asking Dallas City council members to investigate. Former DART employee
Rebecca Williams is among at least five people who have filed federal discrimination complaints against their
old bosses. Williams says she was fired after complaining about being ordered to hire Hispanics
underqualified for the job.
Reverse Discrimination at Kodak: The photo
and imaging giant aggressively excludes non-minorities. Kodak's aggressive, forced-diversity policies and
procedures actively exclude non-minority employees, suppliers and subcontractors.
Former state employee wins $150,000 in reverse
discrimination case. Mark Pasternak said he lost his state job helping troubled youths because
he couldn't stand working under a black boss who called him racist names like "cracker," "polack" and "stupid
white boy." Pasternak was dismissed from his position as a youth worker with the state Office of
Children and Family Services in 1999. But today, he feels some relief and vindication.
Is A New Civil Rights Movement on the
Horizon? In Clayton County, Georgia, the predominately black population recently elected a new sheriff.
On his first day, he fired 27 white employees … They were told that their replacements would be black. In
New Orleans, Louisiana, the predominately black population recently elected its first black District Attorney, Eddie
Jordan. He immediately fired 53 of the 77 white employees in the office, and replaced them with black employees
who were less experienced and who scored lower on performance evaluations.
New Orleans DA loses race-firing appeal.
The New Orleans district attorney lost his fight Wednesday [8/15/2007] against a ruling that said he violated
the civil rights of dozens of white employees when he fired them after taking office in 2003 and replaced them
with black workers.
Race and Crime in New Orleans:
For many critics, the disarray in the DA's office can be traced to a decision [District Attorney Eddie]
Jordan made shortly after being elected to a six-year term in 2002. During the campaign, Mr. Jordan
pledged to make the DA's office look "more like New Orleans," code words, many assumed, for hiring more black
staffers and attorneys. Using a "cultural-diversity report" compiled by his transition team, Mr. Jordan
proceeded to systematically fire veteran white staffers and replace them with African Americans with
little or no experience.
White Male Denied Contracts with
U.S. Dept. of Transportation. DOT was enthusiastic about hiring Fay
Communications until they found out the owner is white.
Whites need not
apply for this college class. Republicans are fighting what they see as "registration discrimination"
at the University of Colorado after learning about a class that's only for minority or first-generation students.
"It's purely and blatantly segregationist," said Brad Jones, chairman of CU's College Republicans.
Update:
University of
Colorado Drops Diversity Class Limited to "Students of Color". The
threat of a civil rights lawsuit has prompted the University of Colorado to drop
a segregated class restricted to minorities and first-generation college students. The
change of heart comes after three students vowed to sue the university for
racial discrimination.
White
man wins race discrimination suit against city. A white man who claimed he was
the victim of racial discrimination by the city of San Francisco when he was denied a
promotion at the airport has been awarded $30,600 in damages by
a San Mateo County jury.
"Too many white faces".
After publicly complaining about a "white dominated administration," a board member with the public library system
for Atlanta and Fulton County in Georgia demoted seven white librarians "because of the color of their skin,"
and then tried to call it a "reorganization."
The New Segregation: Racism in America, Then and
Now. Both segregation and neo-segregation are opposed to the idea of a colorblind society and to
individual rights. Both segregation and neo-segregation see a person as primarily a member of a racial
unit, not as an individual to be evaluated on his or her merits.
Black-focused school gains ground.
Some called it segregation, "the very thing Martin Luther King marched against," said retired teacher Winston
Clement. Others hailed African-centred schools as the best hope for black teens — "that would give
our kids a vision of their own history, it should have happened a long time ago," said mother Aldyth Frater.
"Everyone says it would be segregation, but our schools are segregated anyway," said parent Andrew Murphy.
Attorney says admissions and hiring policies
perpetuate racial segregation: A conservative attorney says the outcome of two University of
Michigan affirmative action cases may have a substantial impact on pre-collegiate schools.
Black Racism: The Hate Crime
That Dare Not Speak Its Name. While the federal government rushes to Los Angeles to investigate
an incident in which a handcuffed youth was slammed into the hood of a car and punched by an officer, a pall of
silence still blankets the horrendous racial murder of four young people whose murderers are now on
trial. The difference in the responses to these two stories can hardly be attributed to anything other
than the skin color of the perpetrators and the victims involved. Apparently the sexual torture and
brutal executions of four promising youngsters is of no interest to the nation's moral guardians, because
the victims happen to be white.
Panthers. Racial prejudice
is ugly. I never knew how ugly until I was on the receiving end.
Whites File Bias Suit Against Black
College: Five white professors in Salisbury, N.C., have filed a lawsuit against Livingstone
College, claiming the private college discriminated against them because of the color of their skin.
Why Elitists Dump on the
South: To preserve its illusion of national innocence, the United States projects its "dark"
side onto the South, a Penn State geographer says. He found that people indulged in one of the last forms
of bigotry acceptable in polite society. Those who wouldn't dream of mocking other groups were
comfortable making jokes about white Southerners.
"Diversity" as Doublespeak for
Ideological Conformity: What's called for and practiced by college administrators, courts and
administrative agencies is anything but a defense of individual rights, freedom from conformity and a doctrine
of live-and-let-live. Instead, diversity is an increasingly popular catchword for all kinds of
conformity — conformity in ideas, actions and speech.
Rocky Mountain Bigot? The John Rocker
zero-tolerance-for-bigotry standard only applies to white people.
Denny's victory may show the way for other
companies: One of the biggest victims of anti-white racism is the restaurant chain Denny's, which
since 1994 has had to shell out more than $50 million in settlement costs and legal fees to assuage the
alleged heartbreak various non-white patrons experienced when they supposedly found themselves denied service
because of their race. Now, after years of groveling before the idols of Afro-racism, Denny's is fighting
back — and winning. There may be a lesson here for much of corporate America.
Federal death penalty biased
against whites: A study shows whites are likelier to face the federal death penalty, Attorney
General John Ashcroft told a House committee Wednesday — and he made the startling claim that
that anti-white bias is not racial bias.
The $600 Million Blacks Only
Lottery: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has paid $600 million to black farmers,
admitting it discriminated. Of course, this has had very little coverage in the news media. As with
so many other scandals in the Clinton administration, they have chosen not to report it.
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Academics:
Bias and Bigotry in Academia.
A decade ago, activist Ron Unz conducted a study of the ethnic and religious composition of the student
body at Harvard. Blacks and Hispanics, Unz found, were then being admitted to his alma mater in
numbers approaching their share of the population. And who were the most underrepresented Americans
at Harvard? White Christians and ethnic Catholics. Though two-thirds of the U.S. population
then, they had dropped to one-fourth of the student body.
Is
Arizona Law Still Wrong If It Works? [Scroll down] Imagine you're an American kid of
Chinese ancestry. Given your SAT scores and GPA, you should be able to get into, say, the University of
Michigan. But because of Michigan's race-based policies, you're turned down because you're not black or
Hispanic. That's not just inconvenient, that's a lifetime loss. You'll never be able to go to that
school. Period. Similarly, being turned down for a job you deserve because of your skin color is a
real loss.
Federal suit planned
against UC over ban on affirmative action. Seeking to increase the ranks of black, Latino and
Native American students at the University of California, civil rights activists said they will file a federal
lawsuit Tuesday [2/16/2010] challenging the state law that bans affirmative action in admissions.
Suit says college singled
out blacks. A former dean of the State University of New York at Cobleskill has filed a
whistleblower lawsuit against the school, saying it discriminated against black students by keeping them in
school for their tuition dollars when administrators knew they had no chance of earning a degree.
The Racism of
Diversity. Let's go over what the Naval Academy sees as an artificial achievement barrier.
A black candidate with B and C grades, with no particular leadership qualities, and 500 on both
portions of the SAT, is virtually guaranteed admittance. A white student, who's not an athlete, with such
scores is deemed not qualified. Many black students are admitted to the Naval Academy through remedial
training at the Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS) in Newport, R.I., which is a one-year post-secondary
school. Finishing the year with a 2.0 GPA, a C average, almost guarantees admission to the
academy. A C average for remedial work is nothing to write home about. Occasionally, when
students don't make the 2.0 GPA target, the target is renegotiated downward.
Compensatory
discrimination … by any means necesssary. You may think racial and sexual discrimination is
(usually) wrong. But whether you call it "affirmative action" or "reverse discrimination," compensatory
racial and sex preference remains in wide use by governments and institutions of higher learning, for hiring,
contracts, and college admissions. A man named Ward Connerly has taken up the policy as his to fight.
"Study, Study,
Study" — A Bad Career Move. About five years ago, shortly before my term ended as a
Regent of the University of California (UC), I was having a casual conversation with a very high-ranking UC
administrator about a proposal that he was developing to increase "diversity" at UC in a manner that would
comply with the dictates of California's Constitution and the prohibition against race, gender and ethnic
preferences. As I listened to his proposal, I asked him why he considered it important to tinker with
admissions instead of just letting the chips fall where they may. In an unguarded moment, he told me that
unless the university took steps to "guide" admissions decisions, UC would be dominated by Asians.
Vicious
Academic Liberals. Hypocrisy is part and parcel of the liberal academic elite. But the
American people, who fund universities either as parents, donors or taxpayers, should not accept this
evilness and there's a good way to stop it — cut off the funding to racially discriminating
colleges and universities.
Academic Mismatch I. Which serves
the interests of the black community better: a black student admitted to a top-tier law school, such as Harvard,
Stanford or Yale, and winds up in the bottom 10 percent of his class, flunks out, or cannot pass the bar
examination, or a black student admitted to a far less prestigious law school, performs just as well as his
white peers, graduates and passes the bar?
America's
Universities Are Living a Diversity Lie. Thirty years ago this past week, Supreme Court Justice
Lewis F. Powell Jr. condemned our nation's selective colleges and universities to live a lie.
Writing the deciding opinion in the case Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, he prompted
these institutions to justify their use of racial preferences in admissions with a rationale most had never
considered and still do not believe — a desire to offer a better education to all students. To this
day, few colleges have even tried to establish that their race-conscious admissions policies yield broad
educational benefits.
The New
Jews? A young man who was brought to the United States as a toddler, Jian Li, has
shaken up the civil rights establishment and Ivy League colleges and rekindled a fierce debate over
racial preferences at America's elite institutions of higher learning. For parents and applicants
navigating the college admissions process, Li has stoked fears that the deck is stacked against even
the most able students.
Affirmative
Distraction: Thirty years ago last week, the Supreme Court handed down its Bakke decision, hoping to
end the argument over the constitutionality of affirmative action in college admission. But with hindsight,
it's clear that the justices mainly helped hasten the end of serious discussion about racial justice in America.
As they set the stage for a lasting argument over who should get into college, the wound of race continued to fester,
unhealed, and our politics moved on.
Racial
discrimination on the ballot in Michigan. Discrimination by race has never had such respectable
defenders as it is garnering in Michigan right now. It is backed by the Democratic governor and her
Republican opponent. By the ACLU and the Michigan Catholic Conference. By General Motors and
Ford. They are all rallying against the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, a ballot measure that would
eliminate racial preferences for "public employment, education or contracting purposes." That includes,
most controversially, college admissions. Racial preferences in admissions have now achieved a status
close to free speech and tenure as operating principles of American higher education.
Opponent of racial
preferences takes quest to Michigan. California's champion of color-blind college admissions has
made his way to Michigan and is aggressively promoting a measure similar to Proposition 209, which outlawed the
use of racial preferences in admissions to California's public colleges 10 years ago.
Update:
Michigan Prefers Equality. Ward
Connerly has done it again: A striking 58% of Michigan voters gave the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative
a thumbs up; only three counties voted against it. The language of the MCRI closely tracks California's
1996 Proposition 209, also led by Mr. Connerly. It amends the Michigan Constitution to "ban public
institutions from using affirmative-action programs that give preferential treatment to groups or individuals
based on their race, gender, color, ethnicity or national origin for public employment, education or
contracting purposes."
White teen sues UT over admissions policy.
An 18-year-old Sugar Land student sued the University of Texas at Austin on Monday [4/7/2008], challenging the
school's use of racial preferences in its admissions policy.
Blacks Against Busing: The January
1994 edition of the newsletter of the National Association for Neighborhood Schools reports on two Missouri officials, both
black, who oppose the continued forced busing of children. St. Louis Mayor Freeman Bosley questions the point of
sending almost 14,000 black youngsters out of their own neighborhoods, instead of working to improve the nearby schools
and making them safe for all.
Mismatching Students for Dollars.
Reactions among academics have been all too predictable to the decision of the 5th Circuit of Appeals, banning the
affirmative action admissions policy at the University of Texas law school. The president of the university says that
a ban on affirmative action would lead to the "virtual resegregation of higher education." A professor at the law
school predicted, "You will have lily-white universities across the United States." Time will prove how ridiculous
these remarks are but, even before that happens, it is worth understanding why.
Dumbing Down America's
Colleges: Wake Forest University, Bates, Bowdoin, and a few other small schools have recently
decided to make the SAT optional for students applying for admission. Their argument for getting rid of
these tests is that it will fling open the doors to "diversity" among the student body. Wake Forest
President Nathan Hatch made the ludicrous claim that jettisoning the SAT would help the school, "move closer
to the goals of greater educational quality and opportunity."
Goodbye SAT? "By making
the SAT and ACT optional, we hope to broaden the applicant pool and increase access at Wake Forest for groups
of students who are currently underrepresented at selective universities," said Martha Allman, director of
admissions, in the WFU's new release. She argued that downplaying the role of standardized tests would
demonstrate how the university values "individual academic achievement" and "talent and character." The
change is also supposed to help "diversify" college's application base.
State Bar of California, Civil Rights Group Spar Over
Affirmative Action. "Currently only about one in three African-Americans who goes to an American law
school passes the bar on the first attempt and a majority never become lawyers at all," says UCLA law professor
Richard Sander. In an article published in the Stanford Law Review, Sander and his research team concluded
several thousand would-be black lawyers either dropped out of law school or failed to pass the bar because of
affirmative action.
Ending Racial Preferences: It's About
Time. The Educational Opportunity Program started out with great promise … but it soon
transmogrified into a program that lowered standards and radicalized students in the process. The
university not only admitted students whose academic preparation made it nearly impossible for them to
succeed, but it permitted many to remain in school despite failing grades. Worse, the program's
organizers encouraged students to take largely segregated ethnic studies courses, whose primary purpose
was to forge ethnic solidarity and reinforce students' feelings that they were victims of a racist society
bent on their destruction.
Affirmative Action Backfires.
Three years ago, UCLA law professor Richard Sander published an explosive, fact-based study of the consequences of
affirmative action in American law schools in the Stanford Law Review. … Easily the most startling conclusion
of his research: Mr. Sander calculated that there are fewer black attorneys today than there would
have been if law schools had practiced color-blind admissions — about 7.9% fewer by his reckoning.
Homie-phobia:
The other day, a guy at work was telling me about another university employee who has been siphoning gas from
one of the university vehicles. It's understandable that he'd want to steal gas. … But the funny thing
is that the university appears unwilling to do anything about what seems to be an obvious case of larceny.
And, oh yes, I forgot to mention that the employee just happens to be a black male.
Getting Beyond Race: Despite
what affirmative action supporters often imply, academic ability matters. Although some students will
outperform their entering credentials and some students will underperform theirs, most students will succeed
in the range that their high school grades and SAT scores predict. Leapfrogging minority candidates into
elite colleges where they often become frustrated and fail hurts them even more than the institutions.
It creates the illusion that we are closing racial disparities in education when in fact we are not.
Black Student Enrollment at UCLA Plunges.
Many critics put the blame squarely on Proposition 209, a ballot measure backed by former UC Regent Ward
Connerly, which outlawed racial preferences in admissions. Since the law took effect a decade ago,
black enrollment at UCLA has dropped 57 percent. But Connerly says inferior schools are at
fault, not his law. … Last year, more than 45,000 students applied to UCLA. Connerly says there are
simply too few blacks who make the grade on the only standard that should count: academic merit.
Michigan voters approved discrimination ban, but opponents of the measure persist.
Court Battle
Likely on Affirmative Action. In the wake of a decisive Nov. 7 vote to prohibit race- and
gender-based preferences in employment, education and contracting, leaders in government and academia who
fought to preserve affirmative action are now hurrying to assess the impact. Officials said the response
is likely to start with a court challenge.
[Why have elections if the losers head straight to court?
More updates:
UW admissions talks draw crowd.
Ward Connerly, who has been fighting affirmative action across the country for more than a decade, addressed
the committee at a hearing at the state Capitol. His appearance drew hundreds of university students,
most of them minorities, who turned out to express their support for the policy.
Legal fight against racial
ban intensifies. The ACLU and NAACP filed suit Tuesday [12/19/2006] against Proposal 2, the
latest salvo in a growing assault just four days before Michigan's ban on affirmative action was to take
effect. The challenge was filed on the same day a federal judge agreed to give three Michigan universities
a six-month delay before they stop using race as a consideration in admissions and financial aid.
Elites to Anti-Affirmative-Action Voters:
Drop Dead. In 1996, Californians voted to ban race and gender preferences in government and
education. Ten years later, the chancellor of the state-funded University of California at Berkeley,
Robert Birgeneau, announced a new Vice Chancellorship for Equity and Inclusion, charged with making Berkeley
more "inclusive" and "less hostile" to "underrepresented minority ... groups." This move is just the
latest expression of the University of California's unrelenting resistance to the 1996 voter initiative, in
every way possible short of patent violation.
Delay of Affirmative Action Ban
Rejected. A federal appeals court on Friday ordered Michigan's universities to stop using
affirmative action in admissions immediately — rejecting an agreement approved by a lower court to
let the institutions keep affirmative action for the current admissions cycle. The appeals court's
analysis also suggested that groups challenging Michigan's new statewide ban on affirmative action face
an uphill climb.
Guilty by admission: Elite colleges violate the
law. Using racial preferences to achieve a particular racial mix of students has been illegal for
at least the last twenty years. Yet many schools persist in treating applicants differently by race in
order to achieve racial diversity. The lingering presence of unlawful racial preferences makes applying
to college or professional school all the more difficult and admissions decisions all the more arbitrary.
Students need to know whether they are being treated in accordance with the law.
"Studies
Prove": Part III. A few years ago, a book by William Bowen and Derek Bok paraded various
statistics that they interpreted as proving the success of policies of preferential admission of blacks to
colleges and universities. A chorus of praise for this study was heard throughout the media and echoed
in academia and among liberal politicians. The study was later cited in a landmark Supreme Court decision
on affirmative action. Not everyone thought this was a great study, however — or even an
adequate study. But no one was allowed access to the raw data on which the Bowen and Bok study was
based. So no one else could run the numbers for themselves and reach their own conclusions.
University of Michigan's Racial Quotas go to the
U.S. Supreme Court. Justices Scalia and Thomas wrote in their dissenting opinion against racial
preferences in the Michigan law school case (Grutter v. Bollinger): "…the University of Michigan
Law School's mystical 'critical mass' justification for its discrimination by race challenges even the most
gullible mind. The admissions statistics show it to be a sham to cover a scheme of racially proportionate
admissions."
Back to the 1950s:
Africentric school to open in 2009.
After years of debate that has divided communities of every colour, Toronto's public school board voted tonight
to open an Africentric alternative school in September 2009. The junior kindergarten to Grade 5
school — believed to be a first in Canada — is expected to help tackle a 40 percent dropout
rate among black students.
Half a
century after Brown: The key fallacy underlying the civil rights vision
was that all black economic lags were due to racial discrimination. That assumption
has survived to this day, in the courts, in the media, in academia, and above all in politics.
Half
a century after Brown: Part II. Medical authorities have long recognized
that a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can nevertheless be fatal in its effects,
if it keeps sick people from getting the treatment that can cure them. Racial mixing
and matching has been the great quack remedy for the educational lags of black school
children that has substituted for higher standards and harder work.
Half a
century after Brown: Part III. Although Brown v. Board of Education dealt
with race and with schools, its judicial philosophy spread rapidly to issues having
nothing to do with race or schools. In the half century since Brown, judges at
all levels have become unelected legislators imposing the vision of the political left
across a wide spectrum.
Does
affirmative action produce more black lawyers? A new and provocative study on affirmative action,
which will appear in the Stanford Law Review this month, is attracting such attention that there is a special
click-through on the publication's Web site to field questions about it. The conclusions of the study,
that racial preferences at law schools produce fewer rather than more black lawyers, is already generating
controversy that is sure to only increase.
Black English May Create Yet Another Wall Around the Ghetto: The
Oakland school board has voted to recognize the lingo of blacks in inner-cities — which they haughtily label Ebonics
(a combination of "ebony" and "phonics") — as a second language. They are now going to apply for federal funds
to set up a bilingual education program of English and "Ebonics."
Modern
Myths about Race and School Performance: Fifty years after the Supreme
Court's Brown vs. Board of Education ruling, the debate about race and academic
performance has in many places gone terribly off the mark.
Call it as it is.
There's considerable unnecessary confusion and debate on public policy issues that would be more intelligently
discussed and resolved if we'd say what is actually meant rather than using euphemistic disguises.
Multilateral
Race Preferences: As Weekly Standard publisher Terry Eastland
noted, we didn't fight a civil war to end legacy admissions. Who cares what Breyer
personally thinks about legacies or anything else for that matter? In America, we
do not substitute justices' personal judgments of fairness for the text of
the Constitution.
For
what purpose? It has been said that, when Ronald Reagan was governor of
California, someone told him that admitting students to the University of California on
individual performance alone could mean that all the students at Berkeley might be
Asian Americans. "So what?" was the Gipper's response.
"Affirmative Action" and College Graduation
Rates: When racial preferences were ended in California, there was much hysteria in the media,
with dire predictions that blacks would be kept out of higher education. Just recently, with much less
publicity, the fact has come out that there are now more black students in the University of California system
than there were when racial preferences and quotas were in effect.
Stifling Black
Students: Civil-rights leaders, white liberals and college administrators seem to be more
concerned with black student enrollment rates and the heck with whether they graduate.
Education of Blacks in America:
Do Facts Matter? Part I: When elite liberal institutions like Stanford, Berkeley and the Ivy League
colleges have been scenes of racial apartheid and racial tensions on campus, have more conservative institutions that
have resisted quotas and preferences been better or worse in these respects?
Education of Blacks in
America: Do Facts Matter? Part II: Facts about other successful black schools,
past and present, get very little attention from the intelligentsia because the stories of these schools would
not forward the agendas of the left. In short, history is treated as just the continuation of politics by
other means.
Dumbing
Down Higher Education. Come November, voters in several states will not only be picking the next
president but deciding whether they want to end a system of racial preferences in public higher education and
government hiring and contracting. In 2006, voters in Michigan struck down racial preferences, as did
Californians and Washingtonians a decade earlier, and as many as five states will have that opportunity this
year if proposed initiatives in those states qualify for the ballot. But a new move is afoot to try to
circumvent the intent of those initiatives in higher education.
Of course he's a socialist.
[President Obama] apparently believes that the people of color of all races — Chinese, Malays,
Native Americans, Cubans, Hawaiians, Andaman Islanders, Indonesians, Eskimos, Philipinos, Africans, and even
Muslims — have been systematically persecuted by whites. That is bizarrely wrong as a point
of fact, if you just look at the actual majority of Asian kids in some of the best American universities
today; or if you look at the decades of foreign aid Americans have given to poor nations.
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The Aftermath of the 2001 Cincinnati Riots:
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ACLU approves landmark police
deal: A proposed settlement to a racial profiling lawsuit against Cincinnati police was approved
today by the American Civil Liberties Union, the last party in the case to ratify the deal.
Vine Street: What was
the excuse this time? There was no police shooting, no reverends shouting for justice this time —
just 300 black people blocking Vine Street on Monday night [4/15/2002], pelting cars with rocks, bottles and eggs
and yelling "get whitey." Some cities would call that a riot. Cincinnati didn't even call it a
"disturbance." The headline over a 3-inch story in the Enquirer the next day said, "Fight draws crowd;
police close street."
The media's role in the Cincinnati race
riots: Could Cincinnati's race riots been averted? Perhaps — if the media had promptly
and properly done their job. Instead of citing 15 police killings of blacks, the media could have
emphasized that in 11 of those previous shootings, the police were fully justified; that in two, officers were
killed or maimed by the person they shot. In only two were the police apparently mistaken.
Riot Ideology and De-Policing:
A Seattle policeman explained de-policing as: "Parking under a shady tree to work on a crossword puzzle is
a great alternative to being labeled a racist and being dragged through an inquest, a review board, an FBI and
U.S. attorney investigation, and a lawsuit." According to columnist John Leo, that's precisely what's
happening in Cincinnati in the wake of the city's recent riots. There's less patrolling to prevent
low-level crimes. Policemen await 911 calls. As a result, crime soars.
"De-policing"
may be the response to racial profiling study.
Blacks
pay dearly for riots.
Police frustration brings
slowdown: It's been almost three months since Cincinnati was gripped by race riots after police
shot a fleeing man who was wanted on 14 misdemeanor warrants. The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that
"Cincinnati police are so demoralized that they are ignoring some minor crimes and looking for jobs in the
suburbs." Arrests are down 35%, and revenue from traffic tickets has fallen by about three-fourths.
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